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Bird Cages by Hendryx (Retro Peacock Edition, 1938) - 1938 Catalog No. 46 (Paperback)
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Bird Cages by Hendryx (Retro Peacock Edition, 1938) - 1938 Catalog No. 46 (Paperback)
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For many Americans living in the twentieth century, the name
"Hendryx" is synonymous with elegant bird cages. With the ubiquity
of the Hendryx brand, these bird cages could be seen wherever
America's beloved winged songsters were kept as pets. By the 1920s,
the Andrew B. Hendryx Company had become the largest birdcage
manufacturer in the United States. In the present day, the most
prized bird cages surviving in American antique shops are of the
Hendryx variety - a testament to the timeless success of this
company. This high-quality edition is a faithful replication of an
exceedingly rare original company catalogue from 1938 and intended
for pet retailers. Each page has been carefully copied using a
colour-calibrated scanner, and the resulting image painstakingly
processed using specialized software to capture and enhance every
detail. To fit modern book dimensions, the edges of the original
publication needed to be extended. To achieve this requirement, we
recreated the missing edges of the original halftone photographs by
meticulously piecing together segments from other areas of the
image. Tiny holes in the halftone images were also repaired in this
seamless fashion, while other non-obtrusive marks were left to
preserve the character of this vintage publication. Sharpness and
contrast have been enhanced, and the colours are re-blended in a
beautiful harmony, resulting in an optimal book that exceeds the
quality of the catalogs that first came off the press in 1938. This
book is a fitting tribute to the company that captured the
imagination of America with its dreamy and modern bird cage
designs. Though the remains of the Hendryx factory can no longer be
seen in the rejuvenated urban landscape of New Haven, the legacy of
Andrew B. Hendryx lives on in every one of the many surviving cages
that left the doors of his factory before it was permanently
shuttered. With its unparalleled ubiquity, Hendryx will forever be
respected and celebrated as "The Great Name in Cages."
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